Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undeterred, Chicago's Milton Reynolds, manufacturer of ballpoint pens (". . . writes high in the stratosphere . . ."), together with the Boston Museum of Science, arranged an expedition that would explore the hitherto entirely unexplored Amne Machin range. Reynolds was out to discover the world's highest mountain (which some believe may be located in the Amne Machin), expressed the hope that a grateful China would name it after...
Soon after that the whole expedition was called off amid fumes of ill will. One day, the Reynolds plane took off, supposedly to go to the U.S. via Tokyo. When it returned to Shanghai after 14 hours, Bradford Washburn, director of the Boston Museum of Science, exclaimed: "Well, I'll curl up and die! He must have flown over the Amne Machin range...
Never before had Manhattan's Whitney Museum held a retrospective show of a living painter. To break its precedent, the museum chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...
Kinsey is just a stuffy Puritan, and a dangerous one at that, according to the American Museum of Natural History's tart-tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home...
Died. Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller, 73, publicity-hating, art-loving (she was a co-founder of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art), wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Daughter of Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, one of the richest men to serve in the U.S. Senate, she married John D.'s only son in 1901, devoted her private life to philanthropy and the strict upbringing of their six children...